Culture and Diversity: What's your story?

Culture and Diversity: What's your story?

Reporting culture and diversity through the Guardian and Observer Archive’s photographic libraries for this year’s Archive Awareness Campaign

Thu 1 Sep 2011 03.58 EDT
First published on Thu 1 Sep 2011 03.58 EDT

Lord Leslie Scarman meeting residents in Brixton in October 1986. Scarman's report following the riots affecting the area in 1981 led to an improvement in the relationship between the police and ethnic minority communities.Photograph: Garry Weaser/The Guardian

An unusual mix of festival goers at the Watchfield Pop Festival, August 1975. The Bishop of Reading conducted Holy Communion on the main stage with a large loaf of bread and two bottles of wine.Photograph: Kenneth Saunders/The Guardian

The Palace of Engineering at Wembley being reclaimed by nature in July 1978. It had been built for the 1924 British Empire Exhibition. The Department of the Environment allowed for its demolition.Photograph: Frank Martin/The Guardian

Bringing the centre of London to a halt in March 1981, protesters formed a ten mile march to highlight the fire attack which killed 13 young black people at a party in Deptford in January that year.Photograph: Frank Martin/The Guardian